The Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund (MFAGF), has announced the launching of a $200 million funding initiative for female-centric Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa....
South African early-stage venture capital fund firm, 4Di Capital, has announced a new $25 million seed funding few months after the company raised $8 million funds...
An Egyptian supply chain solutions startup, OneOrder, has successfully raised $3 million in seed to enable it achieve its aim of expanding beyond the MENA region,...
Kenyan Asset Recovery Agency (ARA), on Monday, withdrew fraud and money laundering charges it had filed against against Nigerian fintech startup, Kora. The charges against the...
Cameroonian crypto-fintech startup, Ejara, an investment app that lets users buy crypto and save money in decentralized wallets, has successfully raised $8 million in Series A...
A couple of former executives of e-commerce giant, Jumia, have teamed up to float a new company to be known as Kapu which will be launched...
Kenyan smartphone reseller startup, Badili Africa, has secured $2 1 million in pre-seed funding to enable it scale up its operations beyond its country of origin....
Nigerian food-tech startup, Orda, has secured a $3.4 million seed funding aimed at pursuing its dream of digitizing restaurants across the African continent. Founded in 2020...
Leading African digital payments company, DPO Group, has launched a new version of their mobile payment app, the DPO Pay Mobile. DPO Group Chairman and co-founder,...
Kenyan fintech startup, Hisa, has launched an app that allows users to invest in the stock market real-time directly from their phones using mobile money. The...
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has announced that the European Union would return its ambassador from Niger after the...
An al Qaeda offshoot in North Africa has claimed responsibility for the attack in central Mali, killing at least seven...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has insisted that the Mpox epidemic remains a public health emergency. WHO first declared an...
Officials in Italy, where sentiments are still high over the unresolved murder of student Giulio Regeni, who was detained and...
DigMo, a gamified fintech startup which helps users to build wealth tools from low to middle-income earners, has been launched...
TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became the third team to win the 2024 African Women’s Champions...
American rapper, Onika Maraj, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, has poured encomium on Nigerian Afrobeats superstar, David Adeleke, aka Davido,...
The Small-Scale Farmers Development Agency (SAFADA) of Zambia has warned of uncertainty on the future of the agricultural sector, stating...
A Nigerian civil society organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Bola Tinubu to launch...
South African disc jockey, DJ Black Coffee, has been named the World’s Best DJ 2024 at the Golden Moon Awards....